In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "v4vijayakumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been using "open source" and "free software" products for some > time. I want to contribute to them but I couldn't decide between "open > source" and "free software". I would support "open source" at this > level, because we can see what it is doing. I don't know how many of us You can also see what free software is doing, since its source is available. > can really see the things, but we have some issues in using "free > software". Consider a "free software" web client (browser), it would > comfortably send the confidential info to the person who programmed it > that way. Why do you think that? > Expecting replies this way. > x : y > > Where, > > x is either "Open source" or "Free software", without quotes > > y is a statement which supports x to be chosen and it can not be more > than 80 characters in length and, 1 line in height > > I hope to get all the replies this way. No fun intended. :) I don't understand what you're expecting. How about this: Free software is a subset of open source software, so all free software is open source. -- Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
